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Consumerism in Healthcare

February 19, 2019 - The Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI), an effort funded by the American Medical Association (AMA), has launched a new data management model that will be able to produce an uninterrupted stream of data from remote blood pressure monitoring devices.
The Self-Measured Blood Pressure Data Model was developed by IHMI to harness critical data that has often gone uncollected,...

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Brigham and Women’s surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande will be leading Amazon’s most significant leap into the healthcare industry yet by becoming CEO of the partnership between the e-commerce giant, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire...

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The healthcare industry’s slow but steady transition from volume to value is about much more than reshaping the delivery of clinical care.
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